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Monday, 12 Jun 2000 — Day 127
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Monday, 26 Jun 2000 TURTON, S.D. The rain is falling […]
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Double-U Trouble
George W. Bush, for his part, is trying to paint Al Gore as partially responsible for high gas prices, and is pointing out that the Veep’s book Earth in the Balance calls for higher taxes on fossil fuels. The Gore campaign responds that Gore was calling for increased taxes on oil companies, not consumers. Meanwhile, […]
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I Have a New Dream
It’s so hard to do right in a world that expects you, rewards you, encourages you to do wrong. As when the Sierra Club, fighting off a Disney mountain development, discovered that it owned shares in Disney. Ever wonder what happens to all that junk mail? Photo: Philip Shepherd, NREL/PIX. As when environmentalists jet to […]
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Ospar the Grouch
Forty of the 60 main fish species caught commercially in the northeast Atlantic are being scooped up faster than they can replenish themselves, according to a report to be released later this week at a meeting of the international Ospar Commission, which is charged with protecting the marine environment around Europe. The report also found […]
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Gimme a (Tax) Break
As high gasoline prices continue to rile Americans, Al Gore plans to unveil a multibillion-dollar national energy strategy this week to reduce American dependence on foreign oil and increase energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy. Under the plan, citizens and small businesses would get tax breaks for buying energy-efficient vehicles and appliances, and […]
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Blue-green or Al G.?
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader won the Green Party nomination yesterday at the party’s convention in Denver and pledged to focus on building a “blue-green” coalition encompassing enviros, blue-collar workers, students, inner-city residents, and small farmers and ranchers. He lambasted the Democratic and Republican parties as virtually indistinguishable servants of the corporations that give them massive […]
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Smoggy Went a Courtin'
A federal appeals court late last week gave the U.S. EPA permission to begin enforcing a regulation that will force 19 states in the Midwest and South to cut sharply power-plant emissions that contribute to smog in the East. The feds say the new rule could remove 1.1 million tons of nitrogen oxide from the […]
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Spring Fever
March through May of this year was the hottest such period in the U.S. since records have been kept, averaging 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit above the previous record set in 1910, according to the latest stats from the National Climatic Data Center. January through May of this year also set a temperature record in the U.S., […]
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Fine and Dandy
The European Union wants fines to be imposed on nations that fail to meet their commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions, with the money going to support projects that would reduce such emissions and help curb global warming. The environment ministers of European countries discussed the matter yesterday in Luxembourg as they worked to develop […]
